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  • The first time I ever read this book, I borrowed it from my high school Latin teacher. I was blown away by the accuracy of his statement that I would love it, and even more so by the book itself. Stephenson writes brilliantly and intelligently and appeals to the reader's sense of humor, wonder, and ... Continue

    The first time I ever read this book, I borrowed it from my high school Latin teacher. I was blown away by the accuracy of his statement that I would love it, and even more so by the book itself. Stephenson writes brilliantly and intelligently and appeals to the reader's sense of humor, wonder, and curiosity while captivating him with a suspenseful and smartly historical and technological plot. Techie sci-fi geeks, brutal cyberpunk fantasizers and casual reading audiences alike and and will be riveted by this book.

    What amazes me personally about it is Stephenson's ability to constantly maintain his present-tense narrative. I think so one-dimensionally about the present tense, and was quite impressed by his power to both maintain it without struggle and use it to his advantage in keeping the storyline moving rapidly and continuously. This book from the beginning took a place as one of my absolute favorites, and its author as well.

    

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  • The first time I ever read this book, I borrowed it from my high school Latin teacher. I was blown away by the accuracy of his statement that I would love it, and even more so by the book itself. Stephenson writes brilliantly and intelligently and appeals to the reader's sense of humor, wonder, and ... Continue

    The first time I ever read this book, I borrowed it from my high school Latin teacher. I was blown away by the accuracy of his statement that I would love it, and even more so by the book itself. Stephenson writes brilliantly and intelligently and appeals to the reader's sense of humor, wonder, and curiosity while captivating him with a suspenseful and smartly historical and technological plot. Techie sci-fi geeks, brutal cyberpunk fantasizers and casual reading audiences alike will be riveted by this book.

    What amazes me personally about it is Stephenson's ability to constantly maintain his present-tense narrative. I think so one-dimensionally about the present tense, and was quite impressed by his power to both maintain it without struggle and use it to his advantage in keeping the storyline moving rapidly and continuously. This book from the beginning took a place as one of my absolute favorites, and its author as well.

    

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  • Okay, is it just me, or did anyone else find the letter about the toilet paper pools highly entertaining? I love this whole book but when I reread it I was just itching to get to that chapter. I read that letter over and over. It is absolutely amazing.

    

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  • In danger of being read too many times.

    

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from the back cover:

ARMCHAIR SHOPPING IN THE METAVERSE

In Reality, the Burbclaves are miniature nation states, MetaCops take major credit cards and the CosaNostra controls the pizza franchise.

Freelance hacker and delivery boy Hiro Protagonist shares a U-Stor-It in LA with his two swords and a Ukrainian grunge metal guitarist. On the Street he's one of the elect who wrote the protocols of the Metaverse, where custom avatars strut and advertising space sells by the pixel.

The Street is much sharper than reality and less dangerous - until an out-of-focus lowlife starts handing out free samples of Snow Crash ...

'Fast, dense, deep, funny, Neuromancer meets Vineland. The best book I've read this year' - Rudy Rucker

'A superb book which far exceeds the limiting definitions of either sci-fiction or cy-fi. A modern classic in every sense' - Martin James in Muzik

'The most dazzling début of recent years' - Charles Shaar Murray in Time Out

'The hottest science fiction writer in America ... Snow Crash is without question the biggest SF novel of the 1990s' - Bruce Sterling in Details

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